I thought William S. Burroughs was addicted to morphine rather than heroin. But as heroin is a morphine derivative we can create an alcove for the morphine addicts

Eugene O'Neill's mother

Mabel Normand

Bela Lugosi

Peter Lorre

Coco Chanel

Is Lou Reed actually addicted to heroin? I thought he was a speed freak.

by Anonymous

reply 14

03/15/2012

Chet Baker before:

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reply 15

03/15/2012

Chet Baker after:

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reply 16

03/15/2012

Faye Dunaway???? That's a new one.

Such a shame about Mitch Hedberg. He was brilliant.

by Anonymous

reply 17

03/15/2012

Bela Lugosi

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reply 19

03/15/2012

Damon Albarn before heroin

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reply 20

03/15/2012

Damon Alburn after heroin

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reply 21

03/15/2012

Yep, Emmylou. She's clean now, but she was an addict for quite a few years.

by Anonymous

reply 22

03/15/2012

I can never quite believe that Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz are heroin addicts. I often wonder if Angelina Jolie is in recovery or not?

by Anonymous

reply 23

03/15/2012

Pete Doherty

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reply 24

03/15/2012

Poor doomed Chet.

Matt Bomer could probably play him.

by Anonymous

reply 25

03/15/2012

James Taylor

Eric Clapton

Bob Dylan r6? Know about pot and other drugs popular during the 60's, but didn't know about him being a heroin addict.

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reply 26

03/15/2012

R23, Julia Roberts started using heroin when she was with Keifer Sutherland. That's why she got the hell away from him before it killed her.

I don't know the identity of Cameron Diaz' heroin mentor, but you can probably figure it out from looking at her past relationships.

by Anonymous

reply 27

03/15/2012

Yoko Ono (recovered now, of course)

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reply 28

03/15/2012

Bob Dylan was strung out for a loooong time through the late 70s and 80s.

Gia.

Nico - who even got her own teenaged son hooked on the shit.

by Anonymous

reply 29

03/15/2012

Many people, and probably many more, are turning to heroin after OxyContin was reformulated. Being unable to abuse it with the new additives, addicts have turned to heroin. Add in the fact that it's cheaper to buy a bag of heroin vs one Oxy pill, former Oxy users easily switch their drug of choice to heroin.

I think we're going to see a huge surge in heroin related deaths, as well as people seeking rehab.

(This is all easily verified with an Internet search, by the way.)

by Anonymous

reply 30

03/15/2012

OMG, thank you for reminding me, R8, R15/R16.

What a treasure!

by Anonymous

reply 31

03/15/2012

Thinning the herd, R30.

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reply 32

03/15/2012

A lot of the people mentioned here were druggies who used heroin (maybe) but were not heroin addicts. Here are some who were:

Janis Joplin

Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love

Billie Holiday

Charlie Parker

Ray Charles

Mitch Hedberg

Deborah Harry

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen

Ricky Lee Jones

Gram Parsons

Eric Clapton

Lou Reed

Jimmy Page

Lenny Bruce

Keith Richards

Anita Pallenberg

Marianne Faithfull

Anita O'Day

Ginger Baker

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Miles Davis

John Coltrane

James Taylor

Johnny Winter

Phil Lynott

Mike Bloomfield

Iggy Pop

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reply 33

03/15/2012

John Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips

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reply 35

03/15/2012

Who wrote Madonna?

Say what you want, but I don't think she's ever been an addict of any drug.

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reply 36

03/15/2012

Since we control most of the poppy fields in Afghanistan, hell yeah heroin use will go up.

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reply 38

03/15/2012

[quote]Judy Garland at the end of her life

I seriously doubt this. Her own speed/downers habit just did her in. "Incautious overdose" was her cause of death. It was the same shit she'd been taking for years. Her frail appearance at the end wasn't uncommon for speed users, and those who were just wearing out their bodies.

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reply 39

03/15/2012

Himmmmmm wrote somewhere (I have read those posts on so many sites now I can't remember where I saw what) that Angelina isn't hooked on herion or oxy, but on fentanyl.

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reply 40

03/18/2012

Jim Carroll

Sid Vicious

Nancy Spungen

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reply 41

03/18/2012

Gregg Allman is a reformed heroin addict. He switched to alcohol addiction .

by Anonymous

reply 42

03/18/2012

I'd forgotten about Yoko. Sean was a smack baby, you know.

by Anonymous

reply 43

03/18/2012

"bump"

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reply 46

03/20/2012

re 33, driving a Checker in 80, picked up Mike Bloomfield outside Lone Star. Wanted to go to Eldridge St. I said, I will only drop you at the Delancey end. Different LES then, kidz.

Next day, POST screams Mike Bloomfield OD's.

Oops.

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reply 47

03/20/2012

Mary Kate Olsen. Ashley's clean tho.

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reply 48

03/20/2012

Is Damon Albarn still using? I saw him perform at the David Letterman show less than two years ago and he looked healthy.

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reply 49

03/20/2012

Damon Albarn looks like shit in the "after" photo because it was taken 20 years from the "before" photo. He was a junkie for awhile but there's not much documented evidence of heroin wasting.

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reply 51

03/31/2012

Was neil young a junkie?

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reply 52

04/09/2012

Layne Staley

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reply 53

10/20/2012

There's some evidence that herion does not age a person but that the lifestyle of many addicts does rapidly. Which is why Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie look great and still use.

In fact, some say that herion preserves looks. But that's another thread isn' it.

by Anonymous

reply 54

10/20/2012

Irving Berlin

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reply 55

10/20/2012

Olsen Twins

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reply 56

10/20/2012

R54, Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction claims that heroin has absolutely kept him looking well preserved. He says what ages heroin users is the junkie lifestyle - not eating, sleeping, doing whatever to score. But if you're rich and aware of what you doing (like not using too much dope, just enough for your fix) it acts like formaldehyde.

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reply 57

10/20/2012

[quote] Which is why Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie look great and still use.

Jolie used to snort it recreationally for a short while in the mid 90s like a number of people I knew but I would never put her in an addict category. Do you people know what a real addict is? I don't really know much about Roberts.

I've known a number of people who played with it back in the day but I personally would never risk anything stronger than pot or hash. LOL!

No it does not preserve you or help you look great. That's ridiculous. Very bad for the skin.

by Anonymous

reply 58

10/20/2012

I can't comment on heroin, but coke keeps me young! I still look like a young, fresh teenager!

by Anonymous

reply 59

10/20/2012

Jim Morrison wasn't a heroin addict. He was a drunkie, not a junkie. Not that it makes much difference in the end.

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